Summary

Photo shows the ruins of the Drake Block in Chicago, which was destroyed by fire in September 1870 (before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871).Stereo by Copelin & Melander.No. 177, printed on front. No. 43, written on back.In series: Stereoscopic Views of Chicago and Vicinity.Title from item. Date pencilled on back of card.

Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Street

The girl on right hand works regularly in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Eva Vanasse, 82 Washington St. Been there two months. The other girl goes to school. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire.

Chicago, Ill., the Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Ave.

Front view of a portion of the Lincoln cabin with a group composed of Mrs. Norah Gridley, Miss Mary Coleman, the typewriter, the brothers Megar, architects, and Mr. Stille, and showing young Hall a great grandson of Tho Lincoln looking through the window of the east room of the cabin / Root, Kimball Hall Studio, 243 Wabash Ave., Chicago.

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